This headline is very misleading. Ford already has a majority government allowing him to do whatever he wants and plenty of time left in his term. This election is about getting ahead of the federal election. Traditionally Ontario likes to vote in premieres that belong to the party opposite of whomever is running the country federally. Right now the federal conservatives lead the polls and a we know a federal election is coming before the end of the year. Doug Ford knows he needs to have an election ahead of that or his chances of remaining in power are slim. Tariffs are just a convenient boogeyman he’s using to try and stay in power longer. He even made sure to send everyone a 200 bucks and timed it so people got it shortly before he announced this election.
Before he started this “Canada is not for sale” bullshit, his slogan for our province was “Ontario, open for business”. Please don’t fall for it. Ford’s demolition of our health care has directly harmed several people close to me and his anti-worker bill 124 took thousands out of my pocket despite it being declared unconstitutional.
He’s the guy who wants to rip out all the bike lanes too, right?
Yes. I live on one of the major roads he’s removing the bike lane from and the entire neighbourhood is pissed. He’s always looking for creative ways to punish Toronto because we don’t vote for him.
He’s only in power because ignorant and biased media like the article above convinced suburbanites to vote for him. His support in the cities and rural Canada is dismal but he keeps winning by offering things he can’t actually provide like one dollar beers and cheap gas.
